Category Archives: blogging

A superb blogging app written in Java, and it also allows you to save your state so you can pick up where you left off on a computer other than your regular one. Just try it using the supplied Webstart … Continue reading →

Finally, music artists have come up with a way to earn money and circumvent the music industry through weedshare, and online service that allows artists to put up their own songs and charge as much as they want for them, … Continue reading →

I finally upgraded to MoveableType 3.212. I really wanted to upgrade, if just to get the Comment Moderation feature as comment spammers are bombarding my site pretty badly right now. Everyday I get about 20 pieces of new comment spam. … Continue reading →

Hmm.. Russell just received his Star Wars trilogy set, I feel like I should get it too, it was just 29.99 at WHSmith’s on the day of the release and is only 26.99 on Amazon right now. I was seriously … Continue reading →

Regarding my comments on MSN Music and the lame comments by some people, Daring Fireball has made some interesting observations on the help site for MSN Music. Microsoft claim that Apple’s store uses a proprietary format and it is difficult … Continue reading →

Larry Osterman has written a brilliant post about his 20 years at Microsoft. He’s been through so many changes and reorganizations at Microsoft, he’s basically witnessed the whole of the personal computer revolution and it’s repercussions. I suppose a lot … Continue reading →

Middle of summer and so much rain around it’s not funny. I was caught in a thunderstorm a week ago with an umbrella in one hand and a kitchen trolley in another Oh and a knapsack which I shouldn’t have … Continue reading →

Looks like XP SP2 is definitely better but proving quite troublesome for many people to install. I’ve read quite a few reports of installations failures and total system screw-ups on different mailing-lists and newsgroups, and this eweek article gives a … Continue reading →

Found a great entry on Tom’s site today where he comments on Paul Graham’s excellent Great Hackers essay. I haven’t managed to find time to read the essay but Tom’s post about office space makes a good point. I also … Continue reading →

Big kerfuffle happening since MT decided to impose some charges upon its users. Mark Pilgrim has a very well-written piece called Freedom 0 which has been linked to death by many people; he ended up writing a follow-up to it. … Continue reading →

Some amazing things happening these days. I’ve been using my Sony Clie heavily for quite a while now and have found it to be so convenient while travelling to/from work. I’ve got several ebooks on it (including Cryptonomicon , some … Continue reading →

Had a great day today. Fixed a major networking-related issue at work which prevented us from accessing some site. I was really pleased I finally fixed that. I’ve also been using Netbeans for some time now and the latest 3.6 … Continue reading →